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Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

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Speaker 2: Come in.

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Speaker 3: Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall.

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Speaker 1: A gentleman named Frank Richard Stockton, whose name may not

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be familiar to you, as I must admit it wasn't

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to me, wrote one of the most famous short stories

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of all time.

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Speaker 3: It was called The Lady or the Tiger.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned it Ona because, in his own curious way,

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it reminded me of the story that doctor Felix Brandt

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is about to reveal.

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Speaker 3: What impulse drives me to put what follows on paper?

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I don't exactly know. I suppose it's a need for confession,

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or perhaps a prayer for forgiveness to a God I've

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forgotten and whose mercy I do not deserve. When I die,

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which will be shortly, and I wonder, when they close

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my eyes at last, if I shall meet the soul

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of Hugh Prentice, and if I too will be condemned

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to wander eternally in a vast limble of loneliness as

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punishment for my crime, a crime worse than murder for

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which I did not have the courage, But I was

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determined the death was too easy for someone who had

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violated the one person I had held most dear in

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all my life, so I dared play God out of

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my own special knowledge and exact the punishment to fit

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the crime. Whoever reads this make your own judgments. What

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has been done cannot be undone.

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Speaker 1: Our mystery drama, The Doppelganger, was written especially for the

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Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Howard da Silva.

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It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.

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Speaker 3: I'll be back shortly with that one. To go back

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to the Lady and the Tiger.

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Speaker 1: You remember, I'm sure that it was a story of

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a man who faced two doors. Behind one of them

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was a famished, raging man eating tiger who would.

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Speaker 3: Devour and destroy.

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Speaker 1: Behind the other was a love goddess every man's desire. Now,

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I'm not suggesting that this story has anything to do

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with that story, except in the matter of choice, something

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we do every day, select one alternative or the other.

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So let's examine doctor Felix Brand's selection and judge him

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as you may.

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Speaker 3: My name is Felix Brand. I have a doctorate clinical psychology.

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I was married, have one daughter. As I've grown older,

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although it has been a passionate obsession of mine, all

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my life, I've had to fight the tendency to devote

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more time to my avocation than my vocation. Parapsychology the

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exploration of a psychic, the world beyond the finite world,

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a hobby or obsession, if you will, which led to

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my unspeakable crime, worse, far worse than murder. It was

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nice of you to meet me at the airport, doctor, Brand,

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for reasons deeper than simple courtesy, Hank. I wanted to

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have a private chat with you about the woman we

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both loved, that daughter of mine. That's why I'm letting

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you drive so I can. Oh, what is it? There's

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something about Brand, not just at this moment.

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Speaker 4: Quickly cut over to the right light FASTA yes, sir,

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But what my god, Doctor, if you had told me

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to pull over, that maniac would have hit his head on.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing more we can do, Hank. The police haven't

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hand Let's drive on. The man is dead. I don't know.

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Probably he used How do you know? I don't. I

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only since it he didn't want to live. I don't

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know why, heart conditioned, terminal disease for some reason. Well,

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how could you know what kind? Well?

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Speaker 4: How did you know to tell me to pull over

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so suddenly, as if you knew in advance there was

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going to be an accident.

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Speaker 3: I'm an old man, Hank, an old man who meddles, perhaps,

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and too many things outside my province. I've been looking

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deeper and deeper into parapsychology and some of the things

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I've come to believe in abof what things here all

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extrasensory perception, esp. If you'd rather, clairvoyance, telepathy, all sorts

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of psychic phenomena. I'm thinking of abandoning classic psychology and

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switching over to the other side. A matter of fact,

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I'm already teaching one course in it, and that's a

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little interest to a lawyer or even my perspective. Somon,

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tell me what butt you're flying down from law school

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for the weekend.

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Speaker 4: I didn't fran Her hasn't fran said anything to you, doctor,

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But what I don't know, I just well her letters

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have been very strange lately and.

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Speaker 3: Not very frequent. I thought something might be wrong. I mean,

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I had a hunch the amateur outflies the expert. I

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hope you're wrong. You have me worried. Fred is everything

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in the world to me? If anything ever happened to her.

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Speaker 4: She means as much to me, doctor brand And don't

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you worry. If anything is wrong between.

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Speaker 3: Us, we can set it right. It was a relief

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to have Hank back again. I had been worried about

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my daughter friend lately, friend a picture of her mother

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for my loss too soon, bright, open, happy, reaching out

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both hands to the world, full of love to give

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and expecting the same in return. And yet I knew

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had been trying to conceal from myself something that was

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very wrong. Something it took Hank, whom she had loved

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with all her hearts since high school, to bring out

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into the open. He friend, aren't you trying to do

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get pneumonia?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Hi, Hank, I?

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Speaker 5: And did you do you so soon?

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Speaker 4: I'm warming enough huddled out here in the gazebo with

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snow all around and the wind whistling her bicycle.

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Speaker 6: What's got my pocket to keep me warm?

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Speaker 4: How about your loved? Don't I get a welcome kiss,

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even if it's a cold one?

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Speaker 6: Oh, Hank?

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Speaker 5: What am I going to say to you?

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Speaker 4: Well, something a lot more straight from the shoulder than

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those weaseling letters I've been getting recently.

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Speaker 5: I know I'm not very proud of myself at the moment.

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Speaker 4: Hey, you don't have to cut corners with me.

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Speaker 3: There's another guy right.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Please listen to me and try to understand. You See,

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Dad has been teaching his regular survey course in basic psychology,

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and I am.

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Speaker 5: Met this this guy there, and I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I've something crazy happened, something I wasn't prepared for or

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even thought about in my well ordered life.

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Speaker 4: You fell in love with her, yes, which lets me out.

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Speaker 3: Please don't put it.

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Speaker 2: Like that, Hank.

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Speaker 6: It's just it's something so sudden, so overwhelming.

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Speaker 4: Hey, don't I even get a chance to get up

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to bath for the ninth any.

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Speaker 6: It's too late, Hank, I'm trying to have his baby.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's that's right between the eyes. When's the wedding?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I just found out about me.

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Speaker 4: I mean I could cheerfully ring that rabbit's neck.

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Speaker 3: Your your father know?

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Speaker 6: And this guy I haven't even told him yet?

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Speaker 3: Why not?

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Speaker 5: Well, I just haven't had the chance.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So it shouldn't be a total loss, and I

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don't waste the whole trip down here.

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Speaker 3: We'll make a deal. I'll tell the doc.

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Speaker 4: About it, and you pinned down your your dream boy.

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Speaker 3: What's his name?

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Speaker 5: By the way, I won't tell you that. I'm afraid

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to it.

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Speaker 2: I do love you.

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Speaker 5: Hang what something else like this turn up?

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Speaker 3: I'm no oracle.

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Speaker 4: It's just what happens to people sort of thing shakes

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faith and makes you wonder about God.

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Speaker 3: But it's life. It's what we have to live.

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Speaker 4: Come on, let's both go inside before we freeze to death.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe what you're telling me, Hank, and you

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had better pop. It's true, popped up? Sorry about that,

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just slipped out. That's all I always wanted from friending you.

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Speaker 4: And we can't legislator play god.

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Speaker 3: It's not the way it's gonna be.

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Speaker 4: But who's the man. Well, it's friend's secret. It's her

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right to keep it that way. There's nothing either of

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us can do about it.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't agree with that. You'll give her up so easily.

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Speaker 4: I never owned her. She's her own mistress. But you

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won't fight for her.

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Speaker 3: I have have a heart. What can I do?

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Speaker 4: I can't force her to love and accept me.

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Speaker 3: The best I can do is be a good loser.

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Speaker 4: You gotta be kidding, friend. So we were together a

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few times you ought to know better than they get caught.

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Speaker 5: That's all I mean to you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, don't knock it. Look you're a sweet chick. We

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made great music. It was all for kicks, though.

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Speaker 4: I mean no tie, here's no padlocks. Look, don't get

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me wrong. I'll get your right guy. I mean, it's

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all legal now, and I'll pay the freight.

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Speaker 5: You if you.

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Speaker 6: Want me to get rid of the baby, no one else.

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Speaker 4: I mean you want it, you have it, just don't

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try to pin me.

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Speaker 3: Then. I want to stay loose. That's my thing.

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Speaker 5: I can't believe what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: It's a whole new world.

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Speaker 4: You want to live by old fashioned boxes.

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Speaker 3: They shoved us in. That's your option.

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Speaker 4: You can't push me in a sleeve, so don't ever try.

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I am today baby. You got to take me as

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you find.

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Speaker 5: Me or as I lose you.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the way it runs, and you should come

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as you go.

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Speaker 5: Why was that easy?

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Speaker 4: Oh come on, I didn't say that.

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Speaker 5: Oh you don't say much.

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Speaker 3: You really mean maybe it's best we just split no here,

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please please look, the kid is out, and don't try

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to hang it on me. I'll deny it.

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Speaker 4: All you'll get is a nice story it to get your.

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Speaker 3: Old man fired out of the university.

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Speaker 6: I can't understand myself how I could how I can

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Speaker 5: Love with anyone who's rotten as zole?

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Speaker 3: Not it off, Ram.

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Speaker 6: If you look if I did do something about the baby,

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would you do alright?

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Speaker 4: Hey, now that's that's more like my old woman talking.

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Speaker 3: Sure if you do. I mean you and me are

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a thing again.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if dad would.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't have any money here.

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Speaker 3: Well, don't look at me.

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Speaker 4: I ain't got the bread, but I got something better.

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What got a buddy mid student senior?

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Speaker 3: And he owes me plenty. I mean, we'll do a

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little collecting.

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Speaker 5: From him, but he's not a doctor.

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Speaker 4: He's the next thing to it. Don't get the whimmies.

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He's done it before. It's a preeze.

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Speaker 3: Leave it to me.

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Speaker 4: I'll set the whole thing up.

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Speaker 3: Brand darling. What is that.

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Speaker 5: Baby?

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Speaker 3: It's gone?

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Speaker 5: But oh I'm pleadings.

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Speaker 3: He's not anything I can do. Yes, thankful, doctor my rose,

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and get here fast. The numbers of my address book

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by the phone on my study deskin. I'm on my way.

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Who did this to you? Friend? The friend? The man

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who made you pregnant. What's his name?

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Speaker 2: I can't.

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Speaker 3: I won't tell her the time, but one way or another,

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our just a friend, and when I do, I'll find

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a way to make him suffer for what he's done

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to you.

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Speaker 1: There isn't much excuse for the man whose name doctor

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Felix Brand still doesn't know, Hugh Prentice. The sad thing

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about life is they usually get away with things. Being

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without a conscience makes life a lot easier. But is

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anyone really without a conscience? That's something Hugh Prentice is

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about to have to start exploring as a strange and

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eerie punishment creeps over him.

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Speaker 3: I'll be back shortly with that too. Of course.

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Speaker 1: In the Gilbert and Sullivan's tradition, the mikado's object of

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making the punishment fit the crime was co make a

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light hearted Here it is deathly serious, in point of fact,

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unearthly so. Doctor mont Rose was able to bring the

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hemorrhage under control after he arrived, and once it had

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stopped and fran was under sedation, he met with his

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old friend Felix in the study.

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Speaker 4: Well she's all right now, Felix, nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 3: You don't think we should get her to the hospital.

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Speaker 4: Under ordinary circumstances, perhaps, but I'd say she's out of danger.

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She'll have to be watched closely, but I can handle that.

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Speaker 3: If I put her in.

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Speaker 4: A hospital, it's all out in the open. You don't

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want that, do you?

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Speaker 3: What do you mean, Jim?

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Speaker 4: This is a pretty high bound community, Felix. You're a

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good friend, Jim of yours and little fram. I don't

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want to see her hurt any Why did she do it?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean she and Hank are going to get married anyway,

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so I wasn't.

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Speaker 3: Oh what would you do about the man who started

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all this time if it were my daughter?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I know we're a little elderly for physical retribution,

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ain't we in any other course? And problematical probably hurt

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friend more.

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Speaker 3: Than the man. Do you know who he is? No?

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Friend won't tell me.

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Speaker 4: I suppose the best thing to do is let it go.

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Come in.

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Speaker 3: How are you feeling today, friend?

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Speaker 5: I'm all right, daddy.

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Speaker 3: I know. I mean doctor Monrose has given you a

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clean bill of health, has he? Well? He says you

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can get up and go back to college or whatever

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you want.

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Speaker 6: Whatever I want. There's one thing I want I may

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never have anymore. Didn't doctor Jim tell you?

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Speaker 3: Yes? We can talk about it later. Friend, I was

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just wondering, what would you like to well? I mean,

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Hank is still here and he would like to see you.

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Speaker 6: No, I don't want to see Hank. I'm going back

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where I belong if.

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Speaker 3: He'll have me. Are you ready to tell me his

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name yet? No, not till I.

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Speaker 5: Find out where I stand.

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Speaker 3: How can you make yourself so cheap? This man, whoever

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he is, has taken all the love of a joy

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and laughter out of you. How can you go crawling

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back to.

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Speaker 6: Him because he's the only one who can give it

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back to me.

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Speaker 3: And if he doesn't, I just don't want to live.

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I was helpless to aid her, to ease anything for her.

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All that burned in me was a rage for the

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man who had turned my happy child into a hurt

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and battered shell, a beggar dependent on a man who

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is not worthy of her. And at this moment, even

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though I still didn't know his name, I could curse

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him and wish him disaster. I could do better than

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that if I turned my back on a god that

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I felt had forsaken me. In mind, and there's an

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extension of all my psychic research. Turned to black magic

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and called down a curse on a man who had

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ruined my child. But first I had to talk to Hank.

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Speaker 4: I love Fran and I want it I always will,

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But just for her sake, I wish I could break

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it up, somehow, get her away from this slimy crud.

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Speaker 3: It's as though he has her under some kind of spell.

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We both know he'll hurt her again, desert her, humble her.

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I think Fran herself knows it, but somehow she can't

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help herself. What are you going to do? Doctor? Just

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let her go back to it and leave it alone.

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I can't stop Frien anymore than you can't, Hank. She's

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not a child, she's of age. Her life is in

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her own hands. I have no legal control. If we

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only knew who he was, well, that won't be too

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hard to find out. I've thought of all kinds of things,

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even though I'm not very rich. I could perhaps buy

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him off. I'm sure he has a price, but that

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wouldn't solve anything for Fran. She loves him, He's what

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she wants. He has only to crook his finger and

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she'll crawl to him. That's obvious enough. After all, she's

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gone through for him. So what can we do? You nothing,

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go back and live your life, not quite without friend,

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but maybe it won't have to be without friend. First

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we have to clean this man out of her mind

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and her blood. But you just said we couldn't one

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way if he doesn't exist anymore, if he's dead.

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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you can't seriously.

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Speaker 3: Mean don't worry his son. Even if I had the

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means a gun, a knife, a blood weapon, I would

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have neither the strength nor the courage to use them,

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to say nothing of my lack of nohow No, but

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I can wish him dead or worse. I might just

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have the power for that.

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Speaker 4: Doctor, are you? Are you all right? I don't understand you.

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Speaker 3: Of course you don't understand, and I am quite all right.

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This is something you will have to leave to me.

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To anyone who reads this, it might seem fantastic that

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the rights I prepare are solemn and real to more

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people around you than you might believe. The ceremonies of

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dark magic are very real to those who perform them.

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In the attic I had found among friends childhood dolls,

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one in the image of a man. I turned my

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study into a chapel of a damned burning sulfur and aesthetics.

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Then he recited from my book of ceremonial magic. Oh,

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all the ministers and companions, I direct, conjure, constrain, and

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command you to fulfill my bequest willingly and straightway, to

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accomplish the destruction of this man unnamed, who has beset

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my daughter and most grievously harmed uh by whatever means.

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So he said, it's great to be swinging with you again, baby.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't sure you'd want me back. I looked, so,

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I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You look great and my own woman again. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 4: We got to ride the subway, but it's got bread

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for the hacks these days.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I don't mind where I am, just as long

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as it's with Hugh.

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Speaker 4: And stick with me, baby, You'll write first class all

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the way, Unlike these types. Okay, long gone. You and

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me are special, just waiting for the right break to

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choose me. If you choose me, I buy you all

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the way down the line.

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Speaker 3: Take a look at me? Who is there? Or could

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walk intoup? Where is it? Hugh? Half halfway down the

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car they you see that guy? No, which one? And

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that's what you mean? Which one? How could you miss him?

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He said, Come and copy of me.

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Speaker 4: He's even wearing the same jeans, the embroidered jacket.

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Speaker 2: I see, you know, I didn't see anyone.

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Speaker 3: Come on, come on, come on, I got to catch

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up with him.

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Speaker 5: Take it easy, I didn't see anyone.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, he disappeared.

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Speaker 4: He's gone, but he U he's like, he's like, my double.

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Speaker 3: Let's go stare.

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Speaker 5: I've got to get home here.

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Speaker 3: I just won't take a moment. Yeah, yeah, there he is.

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There he is. It's right at the top of the stairs,

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next to that fat dame.

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Speaker 6: No, the new one.

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Speaker 5: There, she's all alone.

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Speaker 2: Are you?

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Speaker 3: Are you? He's gone. He's gone again. But he was

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looking right at me. Oh the devil you suppose he was?

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What does he want?

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Speaker 4: Hello?

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Speaker 3: Ram?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 3: What's you? I gotta see it right away. I need help.

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Speaker 2: What's wrong?

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Speaker 3: I can't talk on the phone. Meet me on the

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campus by the phone. Something real crazy happened last night.

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I don't know who else to ask, what to do.

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I was just turning in.

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Speaker 4: I was reaching for the light to Dell said, when

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all of a sudden, he was sitting right there in

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the camp facing me, who him the double like we

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saw on the subway. I said, how the hell did

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you get in here?

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Speaker 3: Who are you?

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Speaker 8: I am your double danger?

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Speaker 3: Why what your double?

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Speaker 8: Or if you want you're an inheritor?

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Speaker 3: What does that mean?

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Speaker 8: It's time for you to wonder like me. It's time

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for me to return and die as I should have.

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Speaker 3: All right, I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 8: A long time ago, so long you can't even begin

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to imagine my sin.

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Speaker 3: And because of my sin, I was not allowed.

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Speaker 8: To die in peace, but condemned to wander in infinity

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until I found a body I could be laid to

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rest in. My time is almost here, and in you

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I will find.

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Speaker 4: A home again. I don't know what kind of a

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nut you are, Jack, but I'm gonna kick.

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Speaker 3: Your tail out of here so I can get some sleep.

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Speaker 8: That won't be necessary. Sleep for you is all I'm

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waiting for.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 8: When you are safely asleep, you are at my mercy.

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The moment your eyes close, your body will be mine,

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and your soul will be left to wander through the

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ages alone, waiting endlessly for peace and the blessing of

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eternal sleep, Get out, get.

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Speaker 3: Away from me. You're nothing but.

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Speaker 5: Nothing better?

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Speaker 3: What here? I mean?

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Speaker 4: I could see him playing as I see you. But

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I could see through him too, like a lamp in backup.

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Speaker 3: I'm shining through his head.

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Speaker 4: The pattern of a cherry was sitting and it's as

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clear as a bell.

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Speaker 3: Throw him, I mean he was real. So I throw

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in some clothes, I ran out of the house. I

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spent a night walking.

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Speaker 4: I was afraid to go sleep to bed ram But

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nothing like this ever happened, even on a wildness tripping.

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Speaker 3: I never blew so wild as this. What am I

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gonna do?

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Speaker 6: Hugh?

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Speaker 5: I think you should see my father.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh sure, that'd be great. After everything, I'd be

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lucky if he didn't try to have me arrested.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't know who you are. He didn't know you

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with the one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but what could he do.

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Speaker 5: He's a psychologist. He didn't help you. Look, you were

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in one of his lecture courses.

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Speaker 4: All you have to do.

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Speaker 6: Is go up to him and say you have a problem,

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that he'd help you.

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Speaker 2: Ah.

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Speaker 3: Not a whole thing is crazy.

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Speaker 4: I see some character in a subway and threads like me.

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Speaker 3: I have a crazy dream. Right away. I blow my cool.

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Speaker 4: There's nothing the matter with me. Come on, let's let's

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cut out. I ain't even gonna see your home. I'm

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going back to bed and catch some shut up you

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listen to non't look at me that way. Don't you

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turn against me?

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Speaker 5: Do you think I could after all that happened?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Right you you I could counter on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, You're my woman, no matter what.

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Speaker 3: I do to you, right, I love leave you and

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don't ever forget it.

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Speaker 4: Baby, Come on, blow, I gotta I gotta hit the sack.

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Speaker 3: All right? Back up, man, I got a knife, get lost. No,

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you are the lost one. What are you talking? Oh?

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Is it?

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Speaker 8: You're double ganger, just waiting for you to get tired

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enough till your sleep is deep enough thought to take

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over your body, so that rivet I may bring myself

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to the peace of the grave.

475
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Speaker 1: What is this race that dogs hues path? A figment

476
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,880
of a diseased imagination, a figure of retribution created by

477
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,839
a conscience weighted with guilt? Or is it some ghastly

478
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,920
nemesis conjured from the supernatural, the world outside our comprehension,

479
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,160
summoned up by doctor Felix Brandt through the agency of

480
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the Devil. I'll be back shortly with Act three. That night,

481
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Hugh Prentice fled to his apartment as though the hounds

482
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,119
of hell were at his heels, locked in securely with

483
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every light blazing, riding high on ben Zadren to keep awake,

484
00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:16,000
he paced the two small rooms like a caged tiger,

485
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,920
and everywhere he turned he faced the douppaganga watching him silently,

486
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,759
waiting patiently, a twisted smile of anticipated triumph on his face.

487
00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:29,920
At last, he could stand it no longer and fled

488
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,720
the apartment with the first light of morning, loaming the streets,

489
00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:36,039
afraid to turn his head, knowing his doubles still followed

490
00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:40,240
on his heels. At last, exhausted, he found a small

491
00:29:40,319 --> 00:29:44,680
restaurant open and sat there, drinking coffee after coffee and

492
00:29:44,839 --> 00:29:49,000
watching the clock till nine o'clock came. Then he crossed

493
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to the public phone to make a.

494
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Speaker 3: Call doctor Brown, speaking doctor Brandt's vis This is Hughe Prentice.

495
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,960
I'm a student of yours, an electure series. It's a

496
00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:08,480
large class. I don't place you for the moment. What

497
00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:11,160
it doesn't matter. What doesn't matter is uh, look, Doc,

498
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,079
I'm in trouble. Can you help me? Help you? How

499
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,839
I can't not over the phone. It's like a matter

500
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:26,640
of life and death. Help me. Well, if you put

501
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:32,079
it that way, of course, I'll try, mister Apprentice, was it? Yeah? Prentice,

502
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,799
Hugh Prentice? Very well? How soon can you be here?

503
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:45,319
We're within ten minutes. Very well, I'll be waiting. I

504
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:50,480
hung up with the strangest feeling. My comprehensive basic psychology

505
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,240
course has a large attendance, some one hundred. The name

506
00:30:54,279 --> 00:30:57,720
meant nothing to me. No, that isn't right. I didn't

507
00:30:57,759 --> 00:31:02,079
recognize it. But I did recognize was a a stifling

508
00:31:03,039 --> 00:31:07,200
feeling rising in my gorge of implacable hatred for this

509
00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:12,279
hue print is why the name filled me with revulsion?

510
00:31:13,599 --> 00:31:20,720
What connection could? And then suddenly the pain struck again,

511
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:30,960
sharper than ever? Oh now where the come? Fine feeling?

512
00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:34,400
This dropped by a What is it that the pain does?

513
00:31:35,359 --> 00:31:39,000
Where your more bean tablets? Draw? Forgot this morning?

514
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, I'll do better than that. Why must

515
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,799
you be so big headed?

516
00:31:46,119 --> 00:31:49,599
Speaker 3: Don't want to establish the habit, and the habit will

517
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:49,880
hurt you.

518
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 4: Lessen the pain right now here, let let's get one.

519
00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:58,160
Get when I'm out of the coat there, that's better.

520
00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 3: Can you roll back your sleeve? Well?

521
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 9: When I prepare the syringes, hurry, let me swab first,

522
00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:12,920
and oh, host Eddy, hold Eddy, ah, and so this

523
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,200
will take hold in a minute.

524
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 3: But getting worship and more frequent. I'm sorry.

525
00:32:18,279 --> 00:32:21,319
Speaker 4: I can't help any more than I can only treatment

526
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,119
medicine has to offer you. If felix is palliative.

527
00:32:24,119 --> 00:32:27,519
Speaker 3: I know. I also know I haven't got much longer.

528
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,640
That's what worries me so about Frano. But guy, whoever

529
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,480
he is, I don't want him to wreck the rest

530
00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:39,039
of her life. Oh that'll be one of my students

531
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,880
wants to see me about something.

532
00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:42,599
Speaker 4: And I have to run anyway. I just wanted to

533
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,839
tell you some good news. I got the tests back

534
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,599
on fran and I was maybe a little hasty on

535
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:53,400
my first diagnosis. With care, there's no reason she can't

536
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:54,480
have a child again.

537
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's good or bad. As long

538
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,039
as that skunk is still alive, whoever he is. I

539
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:05,240
let your visitor in. Oh, I was looking for rot

540
00:33:05,279 --> 00:33:07,880
your brandy. You have the right office. I was only visiting.

541
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Shut the door and come in. You're mister Prentice. Yes, yes, yes, yes, sir,

542
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:20,000
that's right, Hugh Prentice, sit down. Oh suppose you're telling

543
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,400
me what's troubling you.

544
00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 4: Have you ever had any delusions like this before, not

545
00:33:29,319 --> 00:33:29,960
on your life.

546
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,799
Speaker 3: Have you done anything recently that you're that you're sorry for?

547
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:41,599
Ashamed of? No? Like what? I don't know. That's why

548
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,079
I asked.

549
00:33:42,799 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 4: No, Why should I be ashamed of anything I do?

550
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,519
I mean, like I free willed, you know, I give

551
00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:49,079
what I get.

552
00:33:49,119 --> 00:33:53,119
Speaker 3: That's that's all evens with me? What does that mean?

553
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:55,880
Like it's a tough world.

554
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,559
Speaker 4: Doc, I mean, they're all against me, like most of them?

555
00:33:59,119 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 3: They who are they? You know? People are your mother

556
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,160
and father still love?

557
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 6: No?

558
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,519
Speaker 4: My old man took off before I was five, and

559
00:34:11,559 --> 00:34:16,679
my mo, well, she horsed around like like she had

560
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,480
to live, make the bread for me like anyone.

561
00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:22,519
Speaker 3: I guess she liked a good time. What kind of

562
00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:28,119
a job did she have you kidding? Bringing home uncles

563
00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:28,480
for me.

564
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 4: I must have had one hundred or so uncles by

565
00:34:33,039 --> 00:34:34,239
the time I was fourteen.

566
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 3: And then then what?

567
00:34:40,079 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 4: Then she left me with an aunt all dried up stick.

568
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,960
I shouldn't kick about her at that. When she died,

569
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,119
she left me enough dough to go to college like now,

570
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:53,079
and hey, hey, look what has this got to do

571
00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:54,559
with that?

572
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 3: That coon was tracking me. I'm trying to get around

573
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,519
with her. You don't like women very much, do you, Hugh?

574
00:35:03,199 --> 00:35:05,960
I don't know what you get man. You like to

575
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,079
punish them because of what your mother did to you,

576
00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:10,760
isn't that it? Look?

577
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,519
Speaker 4: I don't have to have you push me around like them.

578
00:35:13,559 --> 00:35:14,960
I mean, all I came here for was to.

579
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,159
Speaker 3: Ask for help, and I'm trying to give it to you. Well,

580
00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:19,239
can you just.

581
00:35:19,199 --> 00:35:22,119
Speaker 4: Get this hant, whatever the hell it is off my back?

582
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,079
Speaker 3: I want to try if you just help me, anything,

583
00:35:28,119 --> 00:35:28,760
doc anything.

584
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,519
Speaker 4: I gotta get some sleep, and I'm afraid too.

585
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 3: You're quite safe here. What's that thing? It's a metronome.

586
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,800
Some people use it to learn to keep time to music.

587
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,840
I'll use it to calm people down. Now, just keep

588
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,320
your eye on the needle as it swings back and forth,

589
00:35:51,679 --> 00:35:57,440
and try to relax and answer my questions as honestly

590
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,039
as you can, and maybe together we can get to

591
00:36:02,079 --> 00:36:06,440
the root of what's wrong with you. Tell me your

592
00:36:06,519 --> 00:36:16,679
name again, Hugh, Hugh, what Hugh Prentice? Where were you born?

593
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:27,559
Speaker 4: Allentown, Pennsylvania? What was your father's name Frank, and your mother's.

594
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:34,639
Speaker 3: Mary. I use hypnosis a lot in my work, but

595
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,880
never more deliberately, and I'm ashamed to say callously than today.

596
00:36:39,639 --> 00:36:43,480
Because suddenly, from some deep recess of my being, an

597
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,880
electric wave was sending its knowledge to my brain. Our

598
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:51,920
second sight was born, and I was suddenly sure who

599
00:36:52,079 --> 00:37:01,679
Hugh Prentice really was? Can you hear me? Hugh? Yeah?

600
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:07,119
You know a girl named friend Brand. Don't you sure?

601
00:37:08,639 --> 00:37:15,239
She's my chick? You know she's my daughter? Yeah? And

602
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:21,639
you made her pregnant. She was careless, You took her

603
00:37:21,679 --> 00:37:26,559
to someone to get rid of the child. Sure, that's

604
00:37:26,599 --> 00:37:31,679
the way it is, no sweat. Don't you know she

605
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:32,440
loves you?

606
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:42,599
Speaker 4: Man like their buses, not at any minute? Yeah, sure,

607
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,760
that's how chicks are. Do you love her?

608
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 3: What's with all this love jive?

609
00:37:54,119 --> 00:37:56,280
Speaker 4: I ain't tying myself down, no way.

610
00:37:58,079 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 3: I was, like I told you, I free wheel.

611
00:38:01,559 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 4: I'm really gonna cut down my style. Keep trying all

612
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,119
the squares, all of them, but I'll show them. Anyone

613
00:38:11,199 --> 00:38:16,440
ties me down, I stomp on him good. Specially chicks

614
00:38:16,519 --> 00:38:21,519
like my mother all sweet words and cut your throat

615
00:38:21,559 --> 00:38:26,559
the first chance they get. Only me I'm too smart.

616
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,320
I cut them down a size first. Don't you worry

617
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:33,960
about old heels.

618
00:38:38,119 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 3: The morphine was wearing off already. I sat back in

619
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,760
my chair, watching the boy whose secrets I had bared,

620
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,559
a schizophrenic classic, already paranoid. Possibly he could be saved

621
00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:52,920
through analysis, chemotherapy, new treatments, what you're being reached every day,

622
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,239
treatments I would never live to see, treatments he would

623
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,599
never willingly seek as he had sought me, because out

624
00:38:59,639 --> 00:39:01,760
of the dark side of my studies and my learning,

625
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,639
I had raised a double ganger. Then, for a moment,

626
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:11,280
the pain hit me so wildly, so cutely, agonizingly, that

627
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,360
I must have blacked out a moment because.

628
00:39:15,159 --> 00:39:17,559
Speaker 8: Don't bring him out of his hypnosis.

629
00:39:18,039 --> 00:39:22,679
Speaker 3: He doesn't deserve to live. I cannot condemn him to

630
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,119
the death in limbo like you live.

631
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 8: Let me tell you something, old man, you are about

632
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,159
to die.

633
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 3: Two doors face you open one.

634
00:39:36,679 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 8: And you let this scourge out to destroy your daughter

635
00:39:40,159 --> 00:39:41,280
as well as himself.

636
00:39:42,119 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 3: Open the other, and I take his body, and your

637
00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:47,679
daughter has our chance to live.

638
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,599
Speaker 8: Our life, our chance to find happiness instead of despair

639
00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:52,280
and degradation.

640
00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:02,079
Speaker 3: Which will it be? Which will you choose? Choose Joos Jew.

641
00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:11,840
Only in sleep can a double ganger take possession of

642
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:16,960
another body. Looking at the boy frozen in deep hypnosis

643
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,679
across my desk around him, was it my own pain?

644
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,000
A shadowy figure hovered. I knew I could banish the

645
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,719
shadow if I willed, but I had chosen my door.

646
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,039
I rose and left the office to go home to

647
00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:55,199
my study. A very few apprentice or his body two

648
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,800
days after he smashed him to the rock wall at

649
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:04,880
Highgate Turn, known as Satan's Trap in our neighborhood, whatsoul

650
00:41:05,039 --> 00:41:10,320
possessed it? I will know very soon I am about

651
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,960
to die and leave this manuscript transcribed through those two

652
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,880
days and exquisite pain for my daughter and Hank to read.

653
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,800
I know it will bring them their own pain, but

654
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,719
I hope it will bring them peace. And if I

655
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:33,639
am condemned too for my sins to wander as a doppelganger,

656
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:39,400
I can only pray that what I have done may

657
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:44,320
be worth it, and what I have brought my daughter happiness.

658
00:41:48,159 --> 00:41:52,039
Speaker 1: This manuscript was read by Hank as executor of the estate,

659
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,239
and in that position he exercised a humane decision, perhaps

660
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:58,440
beyond his powers.

661
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,559
Speaker 3: He did not let frank and read her father's letter.

662
00:42:02,199 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 1: He buried it in a safe deposit vault until the

663
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,679
time was ripe, long after they were married and.

664
00:42:08,639 --> 00:42:15,159
Speaker 3: Had children of their own. I'll be back shortly one.

665
00:42:22,639 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: This story came to me through accidental channels, long after

666
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,519
the principles were gone. I cannot vouch for the truth

667
00:42:30,559 --> 00:42:33,760
of it anymore than I suppose any of the principles

668
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:39,119
involved could. It's a story I suppose of retribution and

669
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,159
at the same time a frightening lesson to all of

670
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,039
us who stretched the human relationship.

671
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:46,280
Speaker 3: Beyond normal demands.

672
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 1: If we sin deep enough, in some form, in some way,

673
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,599
I suppose there is a double ganger who will vie

674
00:42:54,639 --> 00:42:58,840
with us for retribution. The only way to avoid that

675
00:42:59,639 --> 00:43:03,440
is to de nigh him the chance. Our cast included

676
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,360
Howard da Silva, Rosemary Rice, Tony Roberts, and Russell Horton.

677
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,960
The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.

678
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,920
And now a preview of our next tale.

679
00:43:18,119 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 3: How do you.

680
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,039
Speaker 7: Render justice in your country?

681
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 5: We have court, when we have judges, jury's lawyers?

682
00:43:25,519 --> 00:43:26,559
Speaker 3: Is it wise to.

683
00:43:26,599 --> 00:43:29,119
Speaker 7: Allow people to judge people?

684
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 5: It is the best way, the most democratic.

685
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 7: Only the mortal gods may decide, but.

686
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 5: How do you know to get them to make a decision.

687
00:43:40,119 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 7: The gods have sent my people a spring of sparkling

688
00:43:44,119 --> 00:43:47,960
walker the accused us.

689
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,039
Speaker 3: Drink at the spring.

690
00:43:49,639 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 5: And what does that prove?

691
00:43:51,559 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 7: The innocent walk away vindicated, and the guilty the guilty

692
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,960
all down dead. Well, it is hardly the way you

693
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,079
will see it. With your own nights. We shall have

694
00:44:06,159 --> 00:44:07,360
a trial to night.

695
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,119
Speaker 5: Oh, who is accused?

696
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:11,679
Speaker 4: You are?

697
00:44:12,159 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 3: This is E. G.

698
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,159
Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

699
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:28,559
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.